The aboriginal all-embracing appointment of the World Prout Assembly, "Building a New World," committed to catastrophe war and acknowledging models of cooperative, community-based economies and political activism, will be captivated May 22-25 at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia. Speakers will cover anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and attorney/social activist Lynne Stewart.
-- The aboriginal all-embracing appointment of the World Prout Assembly, "Building a New World," committed to catastrophe war and acknowledging models of cooperative, community-based economies and political activism, will be captivated May 22-25 at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia.
World Prout Assembly Founding President Garda Ghista announced: "We seek to accompany calm activists from all countries angry for amends in all spheres of activity to anatomy one accepted affiliation in adjustment to actualize all-around change." The appointment keynote abode will be delivered by acclaimed advocate and amusing activist Lynne Stewart, whose supporters accept included the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
The name "World Prout Assembly" is acquired from PROgressive Utilization Theory, a abstraction that involves the conception of "new moral values" to "provide the catalyst for accelerated amusing progress." Based in Highland Heights, Kentucky, the World Prout Assembly is a non-profit alignment founded in January 2005.
According to Ghista, "activists, academics, journalists, poets, musicians and policymakers" are accepted to attend, including anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
More than 70 authorities will speak, including activists against to the Iraq war and those who seek solutions to the growing bread-and-butter crisis, including the accouterment of bloom affliction for all. Along with cardboard and branch presentations, above affair capacity ambit from "End of Empire," "Women's Liberation," "Facing Fundamentalism," "Right to Health Care," "Undoing Racism," "Economic Democracy," "Cooperatives and Economic Localization," "Civil Liberties," "Academic Freedom" and "Sustainability."
Featured speakers cover anti-war "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan; Washington anchorman William Blum, columnist of "Rogue State"; Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War; columnist Mike Whitney, Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence; Steve Alten, acknowledged columnist of "The Shell Game," announcer Gareth Porter; media academic Professor Robert Jensen; University of New Hampshire assistant and Quaker accord activist William Woodward; Food Not Bombs Co-Founder Keith McHenry, Richard Cook, Freeman Wicklund, architect of Mercy for Animals; and Michael Richards, architect of Sustainable Ecological Economic Development.
According to Ghista, there are cogent differences amid backer and antipathetic bread-and-butter approaches and Prout. Under communism, she says, animal alternative is bound "by the ability of the interests of the affair bureaucracy," while backer societies until afresh acceptable "freedom of expression" but not "freedom from ambition and actual insecurity." Since 9/11, she says, even these basal noncombatant liberties accept appear beneath attack.
Ghista said, "Prout's archetype of bread-and-butter capitalism is based on artisan accord in controlling and accommodating buying of assets - altitude which access action and enhance possibilities for claimed fulfillment. History has apparent that during times of bread-and-butter depression, cooperatives abide abundantly unaffected, and accommodate a aisle to bread-and-butter survival."
All those anxious with the crisis in our capitalism and our abridgement are apprenticed to appear this celebrated conference.
For added information, amuse see the organization's Internet site, http://www.wpaconference.org.
